I accidentally auditioned for a K-POP idol group | Hey Tablo Ep.42

So to give you a little background, while I was at Stanford, I had this underground hip hop group.

We call it underground hip hop group because I don't know what else to really call it, but it wasn't that legit.

It started with me and my roommates.

And then it grew, it expanded the team.

Like we had a sort of like a Wu-Tang Clan thing going on where we had this vocalist who was a member of an acapella group.

I mentioned this before.

He went on to become a lawyer, by the way, like a pretty prominent lawyer in Korea.

but besides the point he was a good singer so we had him singing hooks and then we had these two other friends one friend this Vietnamese American kid who was he was like a good b-boy for no reason I think, I don't know, he was studying something like really complicated.

I think he was like a STEM guy.

But him and his computer science major buddy were the dancers.

So it was like this weird group and we called ourselves Foreign Objects.

Foreign Objects.

with a Z.

Very late 90s, early 2000s vibe.

Why you laughing at us? Why you laughing at us? It was a different time.

Having a Z instead of an S at the end of your name was cool.

Okay? Anyways, because we were all Asian or Asian American, so we were foreigners.

Okay? So foreign objects, but like a little science-y and nerdy.

Stanford.

What do you expect? Anyways, we had this group and we made a bunch of shitty songs on my laptop and and with like a computer mic.

And I recorded everyone, I mixed it, it was terrible.

But then we pressed CDs, we had like demo CDs that we passed out to people.

Our first show was like at a talent show.

And it was pretty damn good, to be honest.

Well, at least we thought so.